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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I [THE MEDITERRANEAN.]
- CHAPTER II CONCERNING ARMENIA
- CHAPTER III CONCERNING THE REALM OF PERSIA
- CHAPTER IV CONCERNING INDIA THE LESS
- CHAPTER V CONCERNING INDIA THE GREATER
- CHAPTER VI CONCERNING INDIA TERTIA (S. E. AFRICA)
- CHAPTER VII CONCERNING THE GREATER ARABIA
- CHAPTER VIII CONCERNING THE GREAT TARTAR
- CHAPTER IX CONCERNING CALDEA
- CHAPTER X CONCERNING THE LAND OF ARAN
- CHAPTER XI CONCERNING THE LAND OF MOGAN
- CHAPTER XII CONCERNING THE CASPIAN HILLS
- CHAPTER XIII CONCERNING GEORGIANA
- CHAPTER XIV CONCERNING THE DISTANCES OF COUNTRIES
- CHAPTER XV CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF CHIOS
- CHAPTER XVI CONCERNING TURKEY
- INDEX TO THE MIRABILIA OF JORDANUS AND THE COMMENTARY THEREON
CHAPTER VII - CONCERNING THE GREATER ARABIA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I [THE MEDITERRANEAN.]
- CHAPTER II CONCERNING ARMENIA
- CHAPTER III CONCERNING THE REALM OF PERSIA
- CHAPTER IV CONCERNING INDIA THE LESS
- CHAPTER V CONCERNING INDIA THE GREATER
- CHAPTER VI CONCERNING INDIA TERTIA (S. E. AFRICA)
- CHAPTER VII CONCERNING THE GREATER ARABIA
- CHAPTER VIII CONCERNING THE GREAT TARTAR
- CHAPTER IX CONCERNING CALDEA
- CHAPTER X CONCERNING THE LAND OF ARAN
- CHAPTER XI CONCERNING THE LAND OF MOGAN
- CHAPTER XII CONCERNING THE CASPIAN HILLS
- CHAPTER XIII CONCERNING GEORGIANA
- CHAPTER XIV CONCERNING THE DISTANCES OF COUNTRIES
- CHAPTER XV CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF CHIOS
- CHAPTER XVI CONCERNING TURKEY
- INDEX TO THE MIRABILIA OF JORDANUS AND THE COMMENTARY THEREON
Summary
1. I have been in the Greater Arabia, but can tell little, except that there grow there choice incense and myrrh.
2. The natives of this Arabia are all black, very crafty and lean, with voices like that of a little boy. They dwell in caverns and holes on the ground: they eat fish, herbs, and roots, and nothing else.
3. This Arabia hath very great deserts, pathless and very dry.
4. Of Æthiopia, I say that it is a very great land, and a very hot. There are many monsters there, such as gryphons that guard the golden mountains which be there. Here, too, be serpents and other venomous beasts, of vast size and venomous exceedingly.
5. There, too, are very many pretious stones. The lord of that land I believe to be more potent than any man in the world, and richer in gold and silver and in pretious stones. He is said to have under him fifty-two kings, rich and potent. He ruleth over all his neighbours towards the south and the west.
6. In this Æthiopia are two burning mountains, and between them a mountain of gold. The people of the country are all Christians, but heretics. I have seen and known many folk from those parts.
7. To that emperor the Soldan of Babylon giveth every year 500,000 ducats of tribute as 'tis said.
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- Mirabilia DescriptaThe Wonders of the East, pp. 45 - 46Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010